Americas Telecommunication Indicators 2000

The report is published to coincide with the ITU’s Americas TELECOM 2000, exhibition and forum, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 10-15 April 2000. The report reviews developments in developing countries of the Western Hemisphere (primarily Latin America but also the Caribbean) telecommunications sector, broadly defined, and provides a comprehensive and comparable set of telecommunication indicators, comprising the latest available data for the region. The report includes 60 pages of analysis of trends including privatization, mobile, Internet, and regulatory and policy issues. Three annexes provide additional information on privatization, WTO commitments and Universal Service policies in the region. Fifteen regional tables covering key telecommunication indicators for the years 1998 or 1999 are included as well as four tables showing the top ten telecom operators in Latin America by revenue, main telephone lines, mobile cellular subscribers and international telephone traffic. A directory with names and web sites of telecommunication ministries, regulators and operators in the region is also included.